autoload of kernel modules: how?

[Timothy Murphy]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> In FC4 you can create a script with a name ending in ".modules"
> in /etc/sysconfig/modules and that will get run at around the same time
> that rc.modules would be run. This is the "approved" may of doing this
> now.

Is this preferable to writing a modprobe command in rc.local ?
Is rc.local frowned on now?

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